Welcome Marvel Comics faithful to another edition of The Marvel Compendium, The Beat’s weekly coverage of all the books in the creative house. This week we focus on Ultimate Team #6, where they finally face off against the new Ultimate Hulk. Additionally, our Rapid Rundown includes reviews of X-Men #7 and Aliens vs. Avengers #2.
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Ultimate #6
writer: Haiying
artist: Juan Friggeri
Colorist: Frederico Bligh
Writer: VC’ Travis Lanham
Arguably, when people think of the first iteration of Ultimate Marvel, one of two books come to mind (the other being Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s Ultimate Spider-Man), ultimate battle go through Mark Miller “The subtext is cowardly” and Brian Hitch A true reflection of the times. Considering the past eight years, it’s almost laughable to think of post-9/11 as a dark period in American history. but ultimate battle Reflecting the United States as a superpower that uses nuclear weapons and other superheroes. These characters act solely in the interests of the United States and carry out U.S. policies, good or bad.
Haiying and Juan Friggeri This 2024 concept has been constructed over the past six issues ultimate battle. Indicative of this period, the Ultimate Group is now an underground network of superheroes seeking to overthrow the global oligarchy. Superheroes are portrayed as revolutionaries rather than blunt instruments in the imagined war on terror. In an era when a few are hoarding resources for themselves, destroying the environment, or influencing elections, the idea of building a small but powerful network of people trying to neutralize their evil deeds is necessary.
Issue six finally brings the whole team together for a rescue mission. To say the mission went poorly would be an understatement. Bruce Banner’s team steps up again, as he’s been waiting for throughout the first part of the book. This iteration of the Hulk is unique. Bruce Banner’s desire to control the Hulk led him to become the ruler of Iron Fist and Kunlun. So now the Hulk, along with his cunning intelligence, uses atomic kung fu moves to become the strongest at the same time. engraver Travis Lanham Seems like it would be fun to show the names of all the science-based moves used by the Hulk and his sidekicks (the winner is probably Marie Curie’s Death by Ten Million Knives)
In this issue, Juan Frigeri lets loose in a way he’s never done before. To put it bluntly, if the words atomic kung fu are Without Kunlun or Iron Fist giving you a hint, this issue is an all-out brawl between the Ultimate Warrior, the Hulk, and the Hulk Army. And the action is very cruel. This is a level of violence never seen in this comic, with limbs being dismembered and people exploding previously. The smell of blood isn’t rendered in anatomical detail, and the colorist mostly uses fiery orange tones. Frederico Bligh Taste attenuates violence.
Still, Kemp and Frigeri made their point. Early versions of Ultimate have already secured victory. This is a team fighting against the odds. The final page reminds us that nothing is certain in this series, and the return of the Creator is less than a year away. The world is a cruel place with cruel people in power. The job of overturning them may seem hopeless and difficult, but it is work that needs to be done.
judgment: purchase
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X-Men #7
After a strong start, Jed McKay“X-Men” feels like it’s treading water, obliquely hinting at mysteries and shifts in the status quo without explaining them. Finally, we get answers here and fill the gap between the end of Krakoa and the beginning of this new era. What sometimes felt like a hollow back-to-basics approach now feels new and timely, as we sit in the agony of heroes losing the promise of a brighter future, only to rubber-band back to the fears and hatreds of the past. So happy to finally be with Magneto. As his situation remains a mystery, he is forced to take a back seat. With all the cards on his plate, expect him to have a bigger role. McKay’s script is heartbreaking and humanistic. Neto DiazHis art is filled with masterful movement and a sense of scale, but he shines in the quieter moments of human interaction. There’s a fight here, but it’s not the massive heroic battle you’d expect. Diaz was a good replacement for Stigman, giving the series a consistent look. The visual effect of the double ink vessel is a bit scattered; Sean Parsons and Liveseyhas different methods for line width and shading. two colorists, Marte Gracia and Fel Cifuentes-Sucho Work better together. The flashback scenes look even brighter looking back at moments when there was more hope. It finally feels like the book is moving in a deeper direction than just covering familiar tunes. I hope it stays that way. We need our heroes.
-TR
Aliens vs. Avengers #2
There is a small but vocal group of fans who are sir raleigh scott two prequels alien, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. obviously Jonathan Hickman is one. This question reveals the villain Aliens vs. Avengers Hey guys, I’m David and he plays the robot Michael Fassbender In those movies. In these films, David treats organic life as a laboratory subject and deploys biological agents and experiments on Huggers. Eagle-eyed readers may recognize him as the two robots disguised as the Kree in the first issue, but this version of David gets a Hickman-esque upgrade. Here, David is hell-bent on using the xenomorphs to wipe out all organic life in the multiverse, traveling from universe to universe and killing everything. The only thing that can stop him is the remains of the Avengers. Hickman unleashes the aliens into pure cosmic terror. art by Esad Ribic and Yves Swosina The perfect balance of high-concept science fiction, stomach-churning horror, and massive superheroics. Seriously, this is the best book Marvel has put out right now. – DM
Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness reunite next week in The Amazing Spider-Man #61, as Vampire Wars continues, Night Red’s The Wolf Man
